Hidden: Betrayed, Exploited and Forgotten. How One Boy Overcame the Odds by Cathy Glass, ISBN 9780007260980

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Tayo arrives at Cathy's with only the clothes he stands up in. He has been brought to her by the police but he is calm polite and very well spoken and not at all like the children she normally fosters. The social worker gives Cathy the forms which should contain Tayo's history but apart from his name and age it is blank. Tayo has no past.

Tayo is an 'invisible' child kidnapped from his loving father in Nigeria and brought illegally to the UK by his drink and drugs dependent prostitute mother where he is put to work in a sweat shop in Central London. When he sustains an injury and is no longer earning he is cast out.

When Cathy takes Tayo to school he points out a dozen different addresses where he has stayed in the last six months often being left alone. Tayo lies and manipulates situations to his own advantage and Cathy has to be continually on guard. Tayo's social worker searches all computer databases but there is no record of Tayo - he has only attended school for 3 terms and has never seen a doctor. He and his mother have been evading the authorities by living 'underground'.

With his mother recently released from prison Tayo is desperate to live with his father in Nigeria but no one can track him down or even prove that he exists.

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About the Author: Cathy Glass

Cathy Glass has been a foster carer for over 20 years, during which time she has looked after more than 50 children, of all ages and backgrounds.

She has always combined fostering with writing, and gets up very early in the morning so that she can write, before the day begins with her ever-changing family. Cathy sees writing as a therapy for her. Cathy believes telling the children's stories helped her to come to terms with what the children had been through. Before the publication of the fostering memoirs she had written short stories, articles, and poems for various national magazines and newspapers.

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